One of my big blockers is setting up infrastructure for the new business. I'm doing it myself instead of paying my usual IT person because I won't have that first check for a few more weeks.

Setting up a wiki, a file server, a secrets manager, etc. I haven't been my own sysadmin for years and I am re-learning a bunch of pieces.

Why don't I just pay $10/user/month for each service I need? Mostly because the recurring costs of carrying people is a poor fit for my structure. My businesses tend to carry a lot of people who don't do much. They're in the system but inactive until I need them. We use a lot of contractors. Paying $100 a year X however many services X a bunch of barely active people is fine when you're flush. Then the business hits a rough patch and you're clawing for savings.

So here I am deploying docker and building new workflows.

I just let people check out at my website and click on "Bitcoin - send me an invoice" and they get a code to scan or address to copy and it works fine. One day I'll probably do BTCPay. First time I tried to set it up was last year, and it was a fail because I didn't have the latest version of PHP installed on my website's server but I've since moved to my own host.

🙋‍♀️ I start! The AGORA.ftp.sh give us the opportunity to integrate and test many payment processors including BTCPay, LNbits, Coinos, PayWithFlash, Speed, OpenNode. Believe it or not, they are all available for customers at checkout...

Does it make sense? Well, yes, because we let the user pay with the medium they trust more. So yes, I can say the AGORA shop is BitcoinAccepted ready... We should put some sticker on there...

PayWithFlash is the only one we had not received payments yet. Just yesterday I saw this video and I issue what this girl is saying is sincere and honest.

At some stage, I'd like to try @OPAGO_PAY IRL, because I have not seen in their site a way to integrate the system with existing ecommerce sites.